Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 54
My life as a rabbit
Appearance
Home
Size
Clothes
Food
School
Prompt 
What do you 
Where do 
How big  What do 
What do  Where do 
questions look like?
you live?
are you?
you wear?
you eat?
you go to
school?
Possible 
I am furry and
I live in a 
I am 
I do not 
I eat 
I do not 
answers
I have very
hole in the  small.
wear 
carrots 
have to go
large ears.
ground.
clothes. I 
and 
to school!
have fur.
lettuce.
Follow-up
Choose other animals that could be the result of a wicked witch’s spell, e.g.
you have been turned into a frog, a cat or a mouse.
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3.9 Queen’s family
Level
**
Language focus
Vocabulary: kinship terms
Skills focus
Listening for details
Thinking focus
Following directions
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Whole class work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Write the names of family members on the board, e.g. son,
mother. Write them randomly, i.e. not in the same order as
the oral instructions. See Box 55.
Procedure
1 Say to the class I am a famous queen, but I have a very strange family.
2 Ask them to listen to your description of your family and to write the
members of your family in a list, in the same order that they hear them,
e.g. Uncle, granddaughter. Read from the script in Box 55.
3 When you have finished, check that the children have written the family
names in the correct order.
4 Read the script again and ask the children to write the second part of the
description, e.g. Uncle – monster.